First day I bought my car ... driving it back from the sunshine coast that afternoon ... flooring it, only to realise that it was being rev limited & mivec not kicking in ...
Second day I had my car .... Alternator died completely on the way home from work ... Had it fixed, but still rev limited & no Mivec ...
2 years & probably almost $1k later ... Finally diagnosed the problem properly thanks to FTO Aus & FTOOC & booked in to have it fixed .... Alternator replaced, Air Intake Control valve position sensor replaced ... Got MIVEC working again!!! Best feeling in the world after driving around for so long without it .... OOhhhhh THAT SOUNDDDD!
Aaaand ..... all the times I've cheated death because the FTO is such an awesome handling car...
Driving home form picking up my car in Sydney (to Rockhampton). Raining the whole way and finding out that my new pride and joy lift off oversteers like a MOFO on wet down hill bumpy left handers
Although all the rain and road works on the way lead to 3 bottles of bug and tar remover and a lot of polishing over the following 6 months to get all the tar off
mr-charisma wrote:Aaaand ..... all the times I've cheated death because the FTO is such an awesome handling car...
1st: I second the above quote.
2nd: Sliding in the dirt on the Fto cruise to wisemans ferry at 80km's around a corner after concertrating on a bull of all things and worked my way out of it.. First "drift"
3rd: 3 days after buying the Fto, smashing it into 2 other cars doing about 50km's and realising that she don't have abs or traction control as stated..
6 months after i bought the car, when the warranty was gone, i went to get my new wheels fitted and they said i had a bent subframe.
went to the mechanics to get it fixed and i thought all was good, until i got 'the phone call'.
i had a crack in the engine block which was ireversble and needed a new engine/block.
the good news is that i have a new block going in sometime in the next few weeks and i have new gaskets, fluids, sparkies and belts. So all will work out in the end.
it's just costing me about $3500 before i can even start to moddify it.
"How come when you go to bed at night you wake up even more tired in the morning?...Sorta' defies the point of getting a good night sleep."
1st of all: sex in the back seat of a fto is not even possible for a 5" girl and 5"10' guy
and my moment would probably be that time i lost my license on my bday last yr (juat paid the last of it off yesterday actually.. paid by credit card, SPER can cop the fee for me using the credit card... yeah that'll show them lol)
am however very impressed that i havent hit a single thing in the fto yet
kiz wrote:
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BorepYano wrote:1st of all: sex in the back seat of a fto is not even possible for a 5" girl and 5"10' guy
and my moment would probably be that time i lost my license on my bday last yr (juat paid the last of it off yesterday actually.. paid by credit card, SPER can cop the fee for me using the credit card... yeah that'll show them lol)
am however very impressed that i havent hit a single thing in the fto yet
Trust meit friken is and im tlaking two people that are 182cm each trust me!
lol.... mate dont piss me off, i know where u live
..and i can come around and break your car... oh wait... already done
soeaking of that, get it fixed already u slacker lol
kiz wrote:
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BorepYano wrote:and my moment would probably be that time i lost my license on my bday last yr
Sorry Yang but was this on the Cruise, I was laughing when I saw you had posted in here thinking of that day. From my point of view it looked phat when you screamed past us
I was about to have sex in my FTO at a party early last year i had a bit to much to drink and so did she as soon as she sat in the car she opened up the door and puked.. well now that ruined the moment i am just glad that she didnt spew in the car and make a mess plus on the upside she made it up to me on the next day so all was good
lol.... mate dont piss me off, i know where u live
..and i can come around and break your car... oh wait... already done
soeaking of that, get it fixed already u slacker lol
ahahahha yeah just messing with ya mate
well maybe you should come around and help me change my input and output sensors
BorepYano wrote:and my moment would probably be that time i lost my license on my bday last yr
Sorry Yang but was this on the Cruise, I was laughing when I saw you had posted in here thinking of that day. From my point of view it looked phat when you screamed past us
yup that was the cruise... stupid thing was that i was being careful all the way till then to not do more than 20 over the limit...
at least i stole the attention from simon's flat tire
another down side is now i have to wait even longer for cheap insurance lol
kiz wrote:
silverGPX wrote:This requires a thread? lol
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Well, I have not had the FTO for long, but an unforgetable moment for me has been getting it up to 150-160 k/ph ... With the G4 coilovers in, this was such a smooth ride at this speed ...
I was really happy with the feel of the car ... It didn't even feel like I was driving that fast .. Mind due, I still hard cars overtaking me at this speed, which made it feel even slower ... 1 of them was a mini cooper s, that was flying ... This was on the track of course...
For me, it's a moment I want to forget but my gf keeps reminding me and making jokes about it ... it's not what you think.
Driving along heading from Moorebank to Chipping Norton, this little shouts out, "Hey dad! it's Bubble Bee!!", of course the gf starts lauging. I so wanted to spin the car around and run the kid over, but i didn't coz it's illegal.
Best feeling in the world after driving around for so long without it .... OOhhhhh THAT SOUNDDDD! 
